Imager Socials

Description

See also the "imager-lab" google calendar.

As of Fall 2010, Imager socials have been held in x836 as a mix of socializing and short talks:

• 12:30: pizza and informal chatting
• 12:45-1:15: two 10-minute talks (+5m questions each), pitched at level for all of Imager)
• til 2: finish the pizza and chatting.

IMAGER Social Schedule 2011

• January 26th - canceled in lieu of Jan 28 Imager Party
• February 23rd
  1. HCI - Garth Shoemaker (new postdoc; Booth) - title TBA
  2. Graphics - Ben Jones (MSc; van de Panne): "I've fallen and I CAN get up. Fall recovery controllers for physically simulated characters"
• March 23rd
  1. Graphics - Wolfgang's group - name/title TBA
  2. HCI - Charlotte Tang (postdoc; McGrenere) - title TBA
• April 27th
  1. Viz - Stephen Ingram (PhD; Munzner) - title TBA
  2. TBA - ??
• May 25th
  1. TBA - ??
  2. TBA - ??
• June 22nd
  1. TBA - ??
  2. TBA - ??
• July 27th - no social
• August 24th - no social
• September 28th
• October 26th
• November 23rd

IMAGER Social Schedule 2010

• August 25th
• September 22nd
  1. Stelian Coros (postdoc; van de Panne)
  2. David Levine (postdoc; Pai).
• October 27th
  1. Jeff Hendy (PhD; Booth / McGrenere):"Graphically Enhanced Keyboard Accelerators"
  2. Vincent Levesque (Postdoc; MacLean):"Enhancing Physicality in Touch Interaction with Programmable Friction".
• November 24th - Pizza only
• December 22nd - canceled - holiday.

IMAGER Social Schedule 2006

2006 Imager Socials schedule

ISocial czar responsibilities and history

ISocial Czar responsibilities

• Send out general call for speakers, to faculty, at beginning of term (try to fill whole term)
• 1 week in advance (can do at imager facstaff mtg)
  • Remind speakers
  • Ask for news announcements from faculty
  • Add these to news on website
• At event & afterwards:
  • Announce news events
  • Announce speakers

Frequency of participation

• 4-5 socials in a given term -> 8-10 slots or about one for each of us.
  • -> Every faculty should be represented by a talk (student, postdoc, self) ~once during term
  • Co-supervised by two imager faculty -> only counts half
• Shut down for Jun-Aug
• Replaced by Imager party, sometime in summer, and in January (2011).

Position held by:

• 2010-11 W2 - Karon
• 2010-11 W1 - Tamara (inaugural)

-- KaronMacLean - 08 Feb 2011
-- Tamara - 05 Jan 2007